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...left hand resting on an inexpensive Gideon Bible, Harry S Truman took the presidential oath of office on April 12, 1945. It was an extra 13 days before he received his first substantial briefing on the U.S. effort to develop an atomic weapon--a process fast approaching its climactic stage after more than three years of colossal expense, toil and urgency. Neither Secretary of War Henry Stimson nor Leslie Groves, overseer of the vast atomic project, was in a particular hurry to get the new President's ear because they knew that all the important choices about the Bomb...
...rich in barbecue, fried chicken, ice cream and pie. At the White House, he was an avid jogger with a taste for junk food. His weight fluctuated from 214 to 236. By the time he had his first heart operation last fall, he had taken off much of that extra weight, thanks to a modified South Beach diet and a lot of walking...
...Roberts ran track, wrestled and was co-captain of his football team), the newspaper (he was co-editor) and drama (he once played Peppermint Patty in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). Not everyone in an all boys' school is willing to play a girl; it takes an extra gene, the one that lets you not take yourself too seriously...
...right there." Many of the cases confronting the court deal not with the social issues that claim all the attention of warring interest groups but with business and commercial issues of regulation and property rights and workplace rules. There his experience with business clients would give him extra credibility, and last week the corporate wing of the Republican Party was grateful that at last the court would have a Justice who could at least speak its language if not always embrace its arguments...
...copper and aluminum transmission lines for sale as scrap in China is rampant, even though it's a capital offense. Says Han Young Jin, who worked as an electrical engineer in Pyongyang before defecting to Seoul in 2002: "The grid is a mess." Seoul estimates that building the extra generating capacity and lines needed would cost $1.7 billion, but the final price could be many times higher. Turning on the power could cause the North's dilapidated grid to melt down, so South Korea might have to rebuild that as well, at a cost of billions more...